Anyone have any experience with this?

I need to get my engine pulled to replace a head gasket

and I'm gonna have the clutch replaced while it's out.

I have an extra flywheel and I'd like to get it shaved ahead of

time so it can just be put in with the clutch.

It's an 87 gl d/r 5spd.

Thanks, Rashaan

just old race car knowledge: if you do it you have to have an explosion containment system. vis: if you lighten it you weaken it and it my blow up.

I’m coming to the conclusion that the flywheel in my RX is much heavier than I’d like, so I’d like a lighter one too. I have heard the one from the XT6 is the lightest but I don’t know how much lighter, wonder if anyone has the weights? Most stock flywheels can have some weight safely removed, don’t know how much the EA82 can loose but a look at the XT6 one might shed some light.

 

Gary

Yeah its been weighed and posted.. XT6 was somethinglike 4-6 lbs lighter.. think it was either shawn or mick that weighed and posted...

 

IF All else fails, Skip would know!!

When I was in the first grade, my class was going to go on a field trip, and for the first time ever I was going to ride in one of those rear-engine Bluebird school buses. Those of us who were "cool" wanted to sit in the back of the bus, so we raced to see who could get to the back seat first. After having secured a place on the wide back seat, the bus driver comes back and tells us that *nobody* will be allowed to sit on the back seat because "it's right over the engine, and if the engine's flywheel were to ever explode, you'd all be killed."

 

I thought that sounded like a serious design flaw ;-) but I never forget his stating that...

 

Will's right -- be careful lightening those flywheels, they really can blow up (like a flawed turbine impeller in a jet engine).

 

B1

yeah but these things aren't spinning in excess of 20k rpm

I have turned around dozen EA82T and XT6 flywheels,

generaly take 5 to 6 lbs of mat. off.

No explosions reported to date - have one in my daily driver.

The EA82T weighs approx 23 lb

the XT6 approx 20 lb before turning

Here is a picture of the results

the EA82T is on the right and the XT6

is the one that is cut.

Loss of low end torque is minimal, read no starting from a stop issues and the

engine's angular acceleration is higher, read revs faster.

http://www.westol.com/neper/flywhtr.JPG

I use my 13" Clausing Colchester gear headed engine lathe

Where would you recommend looking to get this done.

 

I don't have the equipment to do it myself, so I'd have to take it to a machine shop probably.

 

Any idea of how much this cost?

Or anyone in NW WA that has the equipment want to make a little money?

 

Thanks again